shane in 15 years as one of those husbands/dads who insists he doesn’t care about those silly reality tv shows ilya and their kids are watching and then standing in the living room with his arms crossed the whole time
ilya promising children cash if they win knowing he's gonna let them win and then asking shane for money because he doesn't have his wallet. he wasn't even an annoying husband yet but he was letting shane know his potential
[“The negative emotional states associated with femininity, such as fear, guilt, and anxiety, can change their meaning through the constitution of collective subjectivity. This shift does not necessarily imply more positive emotional states. Feminist movements can make use of bad feelings. These feelings, however, must be collectivised in order to become useful. Alison Jaggar’s concept of outlaw emotions can help us think about how this shift can happen. Jaggar observes that emotions, while socially constituted, are not fully determined by social structures in the sense that everyone feels the same thing. Those who ‘pay a disproportionately high price for maintaining the status quo’ are more likely to experience outlaw emotions – that is, feelings that are not condoned in a certain social situation.1 Some of the people who experience oppression and exploitation might begin to feel angry rather than scared or resigned. In Arlie Russell Hochschild’s terms, such emotions do not pay the social ‘debt’ owed by particular individuals. When isolated, the individual experiencing outlaw emotions might be experienced as insane or emotionally disturbed – as a person whose emotional practices are out of sync with the expectations and pressures of normative social bonds. Silvia Federici writes that ‘many women have rebelled and are rebelling in this way. They are called “insane”. In reality, they are women who have not found any other way of refusing being exploited except by putting themselves out of use, out of being used.’4 In reading the ‘insanity’ of women as a tacit form of refusal, non-normative or undesirable feelings can become ‘politically (because epistemologically) subversive’. Feeling differently is also a way of knowing differently, and knowing that the world could be different. Forming a collective feminist subjectivity, which is also a collective of feeling, allows people to find communal ways of refusing. Such refusals seek to turn the effects of exploitation outward rather than internalising them.”]
alva gotby, from they call it love: the politics of emotional life, 2023
need a polite way to say "im not engaging in a discussion on this topic with you because the conclusions you have reached are based on so many interwoven layers of misconceptions it would be easier to just like, hard reset your whole brain, just start over as a baby and try again"
It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
[ID: Digital painting, a recreation of one of Leyendecker's Interwoven Socks ads, of a gentleman sitting in a wooden chair before a wooden desk, clutching some envelopes in hand. Instead, it's Dr Watson as played by David Burke, and there's an assortment of chemistry vials on the desk as well as a microscope.
Watson's in a light suit and has a yellow flower pinned to his lapel. The chair he sits in is a swivel one. He sits before a solid coral background. /end ID]
(details and some rambling under the cut!)
While I mostly find that quote up there like a big backhanded compliment, there's a part of me that finds it really endearing.
I think, the question is, can pure sunshine be a conductor of light? Because that's what Watson, especially David Burke's, is to me.
I started this study on the day Mr Burke's passing was shared publicly without knowing if I'd finish it, but I ended up chipping away at it light by little these past few days. I hope I have managed to do him even the slightest bit of justice 💛
Anyway, deets!
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libertarian jesus is fine with the whole betrayal thing because judas was simply acting in his own rational self-interest but suddenly becomes agitated upon hearing he got sold out for less than market rate
theartofmadeline
dededos
origamiaround
kaledo-art
pixelskylines
tangentwithtanner
ellievsbear
